Boris Babochkin

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Andreyevich and the family name is Babochkin.
Boris Babochkin
Борис Бабочкин
Babochkin as Chapayev in Chapaev
Born(1904-01-18)18 January 1904
Saratov, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died17 July 1975(1975-07-17) (aged 71)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
OccupationsFilm and theater actor and director
Years active1921 – 1975
SpouseYekaterina Georgieva
AwardsStalin Prize of first degree (1941), Stalin Prize of third degree (1951), USSR State Prize (1977 — posthumously)

Boris Andreyevich Babochkin (18 January 1904 – 17 July 1975) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and director. Boris Babochkin was one of the first internationally recognized stars of the Soviet-Russian cinema. He rose to fame with the title role in the classic film Chapaev (1934) and later, in the 1950s, he played a sharp anti-communist character on stage in Moscow, for which he was censored by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.


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